]]>Silicon Valley's Next Big Hack? Consciousness Itself
That's the New Age sounding take of Mikey Siegel, an engineer who is part of the "consciousness hacking" movement in Silicon Valley. Siegel–who has worked for NASA and holds a degree from MIT–and his cohort want to use technology to do more than …Read more on Huffington Post

Vail Symposium's consciousness series continues Monday, Tuesday
Julie Beischel, Ph.D., is the co-founder and director of research at the Windbridge Institute in Tucson, Ariz. where she studies afterlife topics using empirical research studies. She is in town this week for a series of Vail Symposium event. Today she …Read more on Vail Daily News

Can this company transfer your consciousness to someone else's body?
Humans have pursued immortality for thousands of years, whether through meditation, exercise or advancements in medicine. But sometimes you just have to accept that, yes, you're going to die. Nobody likes to think of their time here on Earth as …Read more on TechnoBuffalo

Websites have become a permanent feature for every company since they first appeared on the marketer’s radar in 1995. Search engines, helping surfers find relevant web content, have been around even longer; Yahoo Launched in 1994, that’s 20 years ago!

While websites have become more and more sophisticated and internet has exploded to around 1.57 billon pages, the understanding of how search engines help potential customers find your website is still seen as a black art.

In this series of two workshops, you will discover how the experts plan and execute an effective SEO campaign.

Why attend?

Companies spend thousands of pounds every year on outsourced website optimisation; it’s more effective and cheaper in the long run to up-skill someone in-house than to outsource.

Pre-requisites

You need to attend the first workshop in this series in order to make the most of this workshop. Book on line here.

Outcomes of this workshop

After attending this workshop, you will be able to:

Implement the SEO strategy developed in the last workshop

Optimise web pages

Identify where things aren’t working

Measure the effectiveness of your strategy

Course Outline

Introduction

What is page optimisation?

What’s new – recent developments

General approach to optimisation

Whole site optimisation

Basic optimisation of text

Optimisation of images and video

Meta data, headers and title tags

Sitemaps and submitting sitemaps

Page optimisation for target search terms

Page web addresses (URLs and re-writes)

Optimising text

Optimising meta-data

Optimising other content

Measuring results

Analytics – general stats

Analytics specific landing pages and the ‘not provide’ problem

Page position and how high up the rankings you need to be

Page 1 and no traffic?

Advanced optimisation

Competitive search terms

Increasing SEO effect for better rankings

Close

Summary

Questions

Timings

9:15 – 9:30 Registration

9:30 – 10:00 Introduction

10:00 – 11:00 Whole site optimisation

11:00 – 11:15 Tea/Coffee & questions

11:15 – 12:15 Page optimisation for target search terms

12:15 – 12:45 Summary of morning session

12:45 – 13:15 Lunch & questions

13:15 – 14:15 Measuring results

14:15 – 15:15 Advanced optimisation

15:15 – 15:30 Close: Summary & questions

Cost- £395 per person plus vat – including lunch and parking. Reductions for group bookings and not-for-profit-organisations

]]>Novation announces MiniNova synth
Novation has announced a new hardware synth, the MiniNova. This is based on the same synth engine as the company's UltraNova instrument but, as its name suggests, is a more compact proposition that has some unique features of its own. The most …Read more on MusicRadar.com

KIT ME UP: MININOVA SYNTH
The MiniNova lets you do more for less. There are trade-offs. There are only 32 keys and a small area to fit in the controls. But you can still create some impressive sounds. Unlike the Ultranova, there's no inbuilt audio interface – which most users …Read more on Mixmag

Top 10 Torrent Sites Soon Without Mininova
For the first time in five years Mininova is about to disappear from the top 10 of most visited torrent sites. This exit is due to a traffic drop that resulted from the removal of most of the site's torrents following a lost court battle. Newcomer …Read more on TorrentFreak (blog)

]]>Global Big Data Conference – Austin , TXEvent on 2015-04-10 08:00:00
Big Data Bootcamp is on April 10th, 11th and 12th 2015.
Global Big Data Conference is offering 3 day extensive bootcamp on Big Data. This is a fast paced, vendor agnostic, technical overview of the Big Data landscape. No prior knowledge of databases or programming is assumed. Big Data Bootcamp is targeted towards both technical and non-technical people who want to understand the emerging world of Big Data, with a specific focus on Hadoop, NoSQL & Machine Learning. Attendees will experience real Hadoop clusters and the latest Hadoop distributions.

Corporate:
Why you should send your employees to BigData Bootcamp?
Unlike other big data training sessions, our boot camp is unique in the following aspects:
Experts in the Big Data from the US with hands on experience provide the training
Our training is vendor agnostic and provide hands-on exercise of installing and running jobs on Hadoop
We can customize our training to your corporate needs
3 days of intense training (8 hrs/day) with multiple use cases to practice (equivalent to one full month's training from other sources)
A Big Data Certification will be provided upon completion of the training
Individual:
Unlike other big data training sessions, our boot camp is unique in the following aspects:
Experts in the Big Data from the US with hands on experience provide the training
3 days of intense training (8 hrs/day) with multiple use cases to practice (equivalent to one full month's training from other sources)
Trainees will get a good overview of Big Data and be able to gain employment in highly lucrative Big Data industry
Top performers in the class will get placement assistance from the trainers
Our training is vendor agnostic and provide hands-on exercise of installing and running jobs on Hadoop
A Big Data Certification will be provided upon completion of the training
Who Should Attend:
Engineers, Developers, Architects, Networking specialists, Managers, Executives, Students, Professional Services, Architects, Data Analyst, BI Developer/Architect, QA, Performance Engineers, Data Warehouse Professional, Sales, Pre Sales, Technical Marketing, PM, Teaching Staff, Delivery Manager

]]>Visualizing 15 Years Of Acquisitions By Apple, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, And …
You grow old, you slow down, and you die. That is, unless you can inject some fresh blood. After watching the last generation of tech giants wither or stagnate, today's juggernauts are relying on acquisitions to keep them young and relevant. Check out …Read more on TechCrunch

USA Today Photographer to Receive NPPA Award
Murabayashi is an avid photographer and frequently speaks on how photographers can use online marketing to grow their businesses. Before PhotoShelter, he served as a founding employee and senior vice president of engineering at HotJobs.com, where …Read more on The Rafu Shimpo

Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO): Despite Prudent Acquisitions, Yahoo A Sell [Google Inc …
s acquisitions include prominent sites such as Hotjobs.com, Tumblr and mobile app maker Hitpost. Yahoo also has a stake in Asian Internet giant Alibaba.com, which is almost certain to become increasingly profitable with Alibaba's IPO in the near future.Read more on Seeking Alpha

FirstService Residential, the leading community association management company in Florida, has been selected to provide full-service management services for BrickellHouse, a luxurious 46-story tower that houses 374 residential units in Miamis trendy Brickell Avenue area.

BrickellHouse is one of the first new high rises to mark the revitalization of the real estate market in Miami and we are extremely flattered to have been selected by Newgard to deliver on its vision, said Edwin Lugo, Vice President for FirstService Residential. We understand that managing a building is more than just maintaining it; its about creating an experience and enhancing lifestyles. This is just what we plan to do at BrickellHouse. We will translate its sleek lines and finishes into an experience that its residents expect and deserve. Right now, BrickellHouse is the talk of the town and we intend to ensure it stays that way!

Located at 1300 Brickell Bay Drive in Miami, BrickellHouse is the latest incarnation from notable luxury high-rise development firm Newgard Development Group, whose other well-known projects include Solaris in Brickell, Gallery Art in the Miami Arts District and City Palms in Downtown West Palm Beach.